Eileen joined the “Aiming for Accuracy Challenge Quilt Along” by Canadian designer Michele Foster from Ottawa to build her quilting skills and made this pretty quilt in the process. It has a little bit of everything – mostly piecing but also some appliqué and even a few hexagons. I particularly like the blocks with the circles and how a different background for one of them creates a frame around the centre motif. The pantograph Eileen chose is called “Fleur de Swirl”.

We traveled to Tacoma over the weekend, and on our way back we stopped for supper at Moose Creek BBQ in Smokey Point, WA. If you are in the area and like barbecue, check them out, they have great food. And they not only have a giant moose head for decoration but also a quilted moose wall hanging. The pictures all turned out a little blurry but I thought it was a great little quilt and wanted to share it anyway. Isn’t he funny? I especially love the eyes.

Charlene made this stunning quilt using Shania Sunga’s Canada Batiks. She had seen another quilt that I had quilted using the “Maple Sugar” pantograph and decided the design would be perfect for her project. The quilted maple leaves aren’t really visible in the pictures with all the intense red fabrics but look very pretty in reality and suit the quilt well.

“Endangered Sanctuary” is the name of the Holly Taylor fabric collection that Brenda used for this cozy flannel quilt. The pantograph “Deer in the Woods” was just perfect for this project, matching the animals featured in the panels. The quilting isn’t very visible in the pictures, the fabrics are just too busy, it looks better in reality. And the dark brown flannel that Brenda chose for the back didn’t photograph at all, no amount of playing around with photo editing software could turn the pictures into something remotely usable for the blog, sorry about that.

I am sewing faster than I can write patterns right now. I am almost done with another top for a crib quilt that I wrote a pattern for a long time ago. The original was given away to a friend and his wife for their baby in 2005. I made all these quilts over a period of three years or so and never noticed back then that three out of four featured bright colours on a dark background. This cheerful star quilt is the only exception with a cream background. Now I just have to find the time to quilt them all.

This quilt is the last one that I quilted before Christmas. Huguette made it as a gift for her husband. She used cozy flannels for the top and Fireside for the back. Somehow the brown Fireside didn’t photograph well, and I had to play with photo editing software, and this is as good as it gets, sorry. It shows the quilting nicely but the colour is much better in reality. The pantograph Huguette chose is called “Maple Breezes”.

This quilt was inspired by myfavourite scrap quilt pattern. I like using it for donation quilts and made two last year, one with theoriginal pattern, the other with asmall variation. Several people in both my guilds tried the pattern as well, and Naida made this cute version as a gift for a friend’s granddaughter. She wants to make a bigger quilt for herself using this pattern and tried it out in shades of purple for the purple loving little girl. I finished it with the pantograph “Rhapsody”, a pattern with swirls and flowers.

This log cabin quilt in warm fall colours was made as a Christmas gift by Carol. Going with the fall theme, she chose a pantograph called “Leaf Pile” to finish her quilt. Isn’t the log cabin block just amazing? It is so versatile, and I love how easily you can create a completely different look by just turning a few blocks around. I have never tried the lightning bolt/zig zag layout that Carol used for her quilt but I think I should, it looks great.

Penny made this stunning quilt as a gift, and she asked for a swirly quilting design. The rectangular blocks made me reach for the “Peacock Feathers” once again, and I think the design is just perfect. The quilt is huge, and I couldn’t figure out how to get all of it into one picture, so there are only detail pictures today. I have a small obsession with rainbow designs right now, and Penny’s quilt is just perfect. With the pretty batiks it is definitely a design to keep in mind for later.

This quilt was made by Cynthia, and now that I am looking at the pictures I am thinking that Snowflakes would have been a better name than Aquarium. But many people don’t remember the names of the patterns they used, and my computer database always asks for a name, so I have to come up with something. The thread colour I used to quilt this quilt was called “Aquarium”, and at the time I thought it was a fitting name for the whole project. The design Cynthia chose is called “Honey Drops”. I was still going with the Aquarium theme at the time, and it looked like water droplets to me. Oh well, water droplets also work with snowflakes. In any case, it’s a stunning quilt and a great reminder that sometimes you have to stand back to be able to see the full picture.

This little wall hanging was also made by Lisa, and she handed it to me saying “have fun with it”. And boy, did I have fun 🙂 I just made up the designs as I went along, and it all fell into place quickly. It is really nice to have such a small project once in a while where I can pay attention to detail and not have to think about the huge amount of space I have to cover.

Denise made two cozy flannel throws as Christmas gifts for her granddaughters. She used the same pattern and fabrics for both of them but added different borders, one in lilac and one in purple. For the back she chose Fireside in matching colours. The quilting designs are “Wandering Daisies” and “Rhapsody”, both cheerful flower designs perfect for little girls.